Exploratory Testing

Getting Started

Books

• Hendrickson, Elisabeth (2013). Explore It! Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing.

Blog posts & articles

• What is Exploratory Testing? by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
• What is Exploratory Testing — the Programmer Edition by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
• Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
• All Roads Lead To Exploratory Testing by Alex Schladebeck
• Why I'm talking to developers about Exploratory Testing by Callum Akehurst-Ryan
• Exploratory Testing an API by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
• What is Exploratory Testing? An Alternative to Scripted Testing and Try To Break It Testing by Simon Tomes
• Exploratory Testing Basics by Emna Ayadi

Videos

• Deliverable vs expectation by James Lyndsay
• 99 seconds videos by Ministry of Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• Charters
• Heuristics
• Oracles
• Exploring Service APIs through Test Automation by Amber Race
• Intersection of Automation and Exploratory Testing by Maaret Pyhajarvi
• Exploratory Testing on Computer Interfaces (APIs) - Maaret Pyhäjärvi - Keynote - API Conference 2019

Cheat sheets

• Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet (updated version to be found at MoT) by Elisabeth Hendrickson, James Lyndsay, and Dale Emery
• 60 Powerful Heuristics to Bust a Testing Groove With by Simon Knight

Diving Deeper

• Power Hour - Exploratory Testing by Elizabeth Zagroba & Simon Tomes
• Exploratory testing with automationist's gambit by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
• Teaching and Coaching Exploratory Testing by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
• A Personal Journey to Exploratory Testing by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
• A Tale of Two Testers by Kristin Jackvony
• Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap! by Richard Bradshaw and Sarah Deery
• Microheuristics by Alex Schladebeck
• Cultivate Your Credibility with Oracles and Heuristics by Lee Hawkins
• Would Heu-risk it? (blog series & card deck) by Lena Pejgan Wiberg
• TestSphere

More Resource Collections

• A Really Useful List for Exploratory Testers by Simon Tomes
• Pathway Exploratory Testing by Marcel Gehlen
• Exploratory Testing Index by Maaret Pyhäjärvi